Chapter six
The Quidditch try outs
They reached Gryffindor tower five minutes later out of breath. "You walk fast" said Harry holding his stomach. She smiled and fell into an armchair in front of the fire. Hermione, who had been sitting in an arm chair next to her spoke "How was detention?" she asked looking up from her home work in her lap. "Terrific!" said Harry happily. "How's your homework?" Colleen asked looking at the pile of books on her lap.
"Horrible, I can't figure out where this building is" she said. Colleen got out of her chair and looked over Hermione's shoulder. "Greece" she said simply. "How do you know?" she asked sounding frustrated. "The details on the columns" she said pointing at her book. "Well I'm off" she said as she walked up the stairs to the girl's dormitories.
The rest of the week went by quickly, until Friday. Harry woke up early Friday morning and got dressed quickly. He went to his trunk and opened it. He shifted all his books and clothes away, he pulled out his broom and walked down to the Quidditch pitch.
He found Colleen flying happily around the pitch, increasing in speed every lap around. Harry mounted his own broom and flew after her quickly. "Harry?" Colleen asked as she pulled her broom to a halt. "Yeah, that's me" he said pulling up along side of her. They circled around the pitch ten more times then went back into the castle to put their things away then went down to breakfast together.
"Are you nervous about try outs?" Harry asked Colleen as he stuffed a forkful of pancakes into his mouth. "Nah" she said pulling food onto her plate. "We have Care of Magical Creatures and the rest of the day off again, I love being in siwth year, even if the classes are all doubled in length" he said happily. "Yeah it's great, except Hermione's not with us at all" she said sadly.
"Blimey are you two always together?" asked Ron's voice as he sat down next to Harry. Colleen smiled at him and continued to eat her breakfast. After breakfast they headed down to Hagrid's hut. Hagrid looked very cheerful, and in a lot better shape than he had last year with the giants.
"G'mornin' class" he said as they all gathered. "Good Morning" most of them replied happily. "We will be finishin' somethin' we star'ed in your 'ird year" Hagrid paused "Hippogriffs" he finished. Most of the Slytherins had a look of udder horror on their faces. "We will be feed'n em today" he said as he pulled out a bucket of dead rats.
They fed the Hippogriffs without any accidents, or trouble. The bell rang and most of the class headed back up to the castle for lunch. "How was your summer Hagrid?" Hermione asked eagerly. "Great! We found three more giants who were willing to come with us!" he said happily. "Hagrid this is Colleen, she's Sirius's daughter" Harry said, Colleen smiled in acknowledgement then said "hello."
They left Hagrid and headed up to the castle for lunch. "Why were Hippogriffs such a horrible thing to the Slytherins, they are really relatively lovely creatures" asked Colleen curiously. "A little incident involving Draco Malfoy and Buckbeak" said Harry opening the door to the castle.
They made their way to the great hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table. "I can't wait until the Quidditch season starts" said Ron excitedly "I've been practicing all summer, hopefully I won't have to hear another round of 'Weasley is our king' I hate that bloody song!" he said folding his arms.
"When Gryffindor sang it you seemed to like it" said Hermione happily. "Of course I did, they weren't making fun of me, they were praising me" he said stuffing food into his mouth. "I'm just happy to be back on the team" said Harry cheerfully.
"I can't believe Oliver's the flying instructor!" said Katie Bell who was sitting a few seats down. "Neither can I!" said Ron excitedly "maybe he can give me a few pointers." "I hope I get on the team" Colleen said twirling her food nervously.
After lunch they walked up to James and Sirius and James's class room. "Ah James did you know I thought I would never here the words 'Potter, Black, detention' boy was I wrong" Colleen shot her father an evil gaze, he looked at her and almost jumped out of his seat.
James smirked at Harry "Are you going to watch the try-outs?" Harry asked. "Defiantly!" said James happily "I haven't seen a good Quidditch match in ages, or anything having to do with Quidditch!"
"Do you wana go out side again?" asked Ron's voice from the door way. "Sure" said Harry turning around to face Ron. "Only if I don't get pushed into the lake again" said Colleen turning away from her father. "Good bye" said Sirius happily. "Bye" said Harry and Colleen as they walked out of the class room.
They walked out to the lake again and sat by the water talking about how different Snape was now that his sister was here. "Well I guess he felt guilty" said colleen looking at Harry. "Why?" Ron asked sounding very surprised. "He told Voldemort where we were" said Colleen folding her arms "accidentally of course."
"Hello, Mudblood" said a cold voice from behind Colleen. Harry turned around to see who it was, it was Pansy Parkinson and a bunch of Slytherin girls. Colleen stood up quickly and said "who exactly are you calling a Mudblood?" "Why of course you!" said Pansy glaring at her. "My parents are both fully capable of performing magic" she said glaring back. "Densaugeo!" Pansy screamed, Colleen dodged by turning into a grim. Pansy's face turned red at the sight of this.
She quickly turned back and screamed "Expelliarmus!" Pansy and the other Slytherins wands flew out of there hands. They scrambled around for their wands, Pansy had hers aimed at Colleen when Draco Malfoy came out from behind Pansy and screamed "Tarantallegra!" and the spell took it's affect, Pansy started to dance. Colleen smiled at Draco, he nodded happily. "Pansy, I told you not to go barking up the wrong tree" he starring at her with a look of disgust on his face.
Harry looked at his watch and said "guys Quidditch try-outs we gotta go get our brooms!" Harry, Ron and Colleen ran up to Gryffindor tower to get their brooms. Then they headed down to the Quidditch Pitch. Before they walked in Harry told Colleen good luck and they walked in.
They entered the stadium, James and Sirius were sitting in the front row. "Every one here?" Harry asked looking around at the people in front of him. "Yes" said Ginny promptly. "And we have nine people for the position" Harry said looking around at all of them.
He turned back to the Quidditch team and said "Ron guard the goals, count how many you block and how many they get in, and the total" Ron nodded and Harry moved on. "You two" he said pointing at Andrew Kirke and Jack Sloper "hit bludgers toward the person who is trying out, but not at them just towards them so they lose there balance" the two nodded and Harry went on. "Katie, Ginny don't score, pass, take passes, do what you do at a game" he said as he turned back to the people who were trying out for the position.
"You will each have until I catch the snitch" he said as he walked over to the trunk with balls, and released them. For each of the first eight Harry noticed that they were pretty bad, Colleen on the other hand was terrific. Harry didn't know how many she scored, but he knew she scored a lot.
When he caught the snitch he landed to talk to Ron and the rest of the Quidditch team. "Colleen scored the most" said Ron happily "she scored 23 of the 24 goals she tried to get in, she left all the other people in the dust!" Harry walked over to her, she was now talking to Sirius and James. "Good news" Harry said he approached her. "What?" she asked sweetly. "You're on the team!" he said happily. She smiled at him and then turned to her father, "Congratulations!" he said.
"Weasley you're a good keeper" said Oliver who had just emerged in front of them. "Thanks Wood" he said happily. "Better than I thought" he said "And Black that broom is amazing!" he said staring at her broom. "Thanks" she said happily. "This year Gryffindor is a shoe in for the cup" Oliver said. "Wait here" Harry said running into the Gryffindor changing room, and running out a second later with a bundle of red robes in his hand.
"Here" he said handing her the bundle. "What the..." she started but Harry cut her off. "Alicia's old robes, now your's" Harry said. Colleen smiled and opened the bundle. "Can I see those" Sirius asked looking at the robes curiously, Colleen nodded and handed the robes to Sirius. Sirius took the uniform and turned the right sleeve inside out. "I knew it!" he said excitedly. "What?" Colleen asked with a suspicious look on her face.
"This" he said as he flipped it over so Harry and Colleen could see it. Harry saw that it said something and read it to himself, Sirius Black, the one the only Padfoot! Harry laughed and looked at Sirius. "You played Quidditch?" Harry asked confused. "The best chaser in the game, but I happen to think his daughter has just beat him out of the position of the best" James said, Colleen smiled at the compliment.
They left around an hour later, they had practiced for sometime. It was still light out, but just barely, they quickly made their way up to the castle entrance. Then up to Gryffindor tower in silence.
But in front of Gryffindor tower stood Pansy Parkinson and Professor Snape. Colleen stopped dead in her tracks, her eyes widened, and she started to walk once again slowly, but walking all the same. They reached the painting and Pansy spoke. "Her, she attacked me" she said simply turning to see Snapes face.
Snape grinned slightly and said "you actually expect me to believe that me niece would be stupid enough to attack you?" he sighed and crossed his arms. "NIECE?" she roared "are you kidding me? That Mudblood…" she started, but Snape cut her off. "You're calling my sister a muggle, and as much as I hate to say it….Black is from a very pureblood family" he said pointing his finger at Pansy "detention, and five points from Slytherin for starting duels with people who are much better at them then yourself" he said turning away.
"How many people are going to have to tell you not to pick fights with me, Pansy?" Colleen asked as Pansy started to walk. Pansy ignored her, as if she hadn't said a word. The Gryffindor common room was packed with people wanting to know who made the team.
They sat down at a table, which Hermione was sitting at, working on her homework. They sat down next to her, Colleen said "I made the team." "Congratulations" said Hermione looking up from her work. "What classes do we have homework in?" Ron asked. "History of magic, Charms, and Transfiguration" said Hermione going back to an essay that was already a foot longer than it had to be.
They worked on their homework for two hours, Harry had just began to figure out that Colleen was very smart, when she got up to take a shower. "You have a big crush on her, don't you?" asked Hermione, when Colleen had fully disappeared into the girls showers. "Can you tell?" he asked her. "Yeah, you act like a total git when she's around" said Ron looking up from his work.
"Well do you think she likes me?" Harry asked nervously. "Well I don't know, actually…" Hermione trailed off. "What?" he asked anxiously. "Well Harry, I think she likes Draco" she said turning away from him to avoid his gaze. "WHAT?" he screamed "That bloody git over me?" he said lowering his voice slightly. "I can't really tell, but what about Cho?" Hermione asked turning back to him.
"Cho?" Harry asked his voice getting lower. "Are you still mad about the row you and her had last year?" asked Ron happily. "That wasn't a row, that was a huge falling out, I'm never going to talk to the ruddy girl again" Harry said angrily. "Last year you thought she was the world" said Hermione. "I just don't like her any more ok, I like Colleen, alright?" he said closing one of his text books.
"Alright" said Colleen who had just emerged from behind Hermione, in nothing more than a towel, her hair still wet. Harry's eyes widened "did you, did you hear what I just said?" Harry asked nervously. "Yes, I did" she said simply. "Can talk to you for a minute, in private?" Harry asked. "Yeah, let me put some clothes on" she said with a laugh.
She emerged from the girls dormitory five minutes later in pajama pants and a sheer top. "Let's go into the hall, so no one can hear us all right?" Harry said walking over to the portrait. "We don't have to, we could just speak in parcel tongue, no one will be able to understand us" she said simply. Harry nodded, and they walked over to a far table, in the corner.
"So what do you want to talk about" she said still in English. Harry had to concentrate for a second, he had spoken parcel tongue in quiet some. Finally he spoke "I like you" he said simply. She closed her eyes in concentration , then spoke "I know, I've known since my dad's trial, at Diagon Alley" she said smiling. "How?" he asked. "Have you ever heard my dad say, 'traits between the Animagi form of the person, get mixed, like, terrific hearing', I heard you and Ron talking" she said simply.
"So you've known the whole time?" he asked (not in parcel tongue.) "Yeah" she replied simply. "So what do you say?" he asked. She leaned across the table, and pressed her lips against his. She pulled away and smiled "does that answer your question?" she asked still smiling. He nodded and smiled back at her.
"I'm going to bed, meet me tomorrow morning, before breakfast in the corridor out side the owlry, it's the farthest place from my dad's class room" she said, and with that she left. Harry sat there, staring at the girl's staircase. A second later Ron came over and sat next to him, and asked "What happened?" "Sh-she kissed me" he said turning to face Ron, Ron had his mouth open in disbelief.
"I don't believe it, I've liked Hermione since the forth year" the second he said that he covered his mouth. "You like Hermione!" Harry said overly loud. "Yeah" he said simply. "Why don't you tell her?" Harry asked. "I don't know, I guess I'm afraid to ask her" he said playing with his hands. "You know, I think she likes you too, you know?" Harry said. "Well I'm going to bed, I've gotta meet Colleen in the morning" Harry said moving toward the boy's staircase.
Harry woke up the next morning and got dressed and then headed down to the owlry. He found Colleen leaning against the wall looking at the ground. He walked over to her, she looked up and smiled at him. "You came!" she said happily. "Of course I came" he said walking closer to her. They were centimeters away from each other, Harry noticed how much shorter she was, she was at least three inches shorter than him, she had to stand on her toes to reach him.
He leaned in to kiss her, their lips touched. Shortly after, Harry parted her lips with his tongue. She slid her tongue into his mouth, he massaged her tongue with his own. He moved his hands down her back, until they rest on her butt. A second later someone appeared at the end of the hall "Potter?" the voice said.
The two of them broke apart, it was Draco Malfoy, with a letter in his hand. Harry eyes widened, he wiped his lips slightly. Colleen started to laugh, but she then started to walk past Malfoy (towards the great hall). "I can't believe you Potter, a girl like that, huh, she deserves way better. What did you do? Put the Imperius Curse on her?" he said madly. "No, actually it was her idea" he said pushing past Malfoy.
He found Colleen almost running to the Great hall. She entered the Great Hall and Harry followed after her a second later. They sat down at the Gryffindor table, next to Neville who asked him "what's wrong with your lips Harry?" Colleen looked up and started to laugh. "What?" he asked curiously. "Lipstick" she said simply. Harry's eyes opened and he wiped his lips with his napkin.
"So what does this mean?" he asked her. "I guess we're a couple" she said smiling. He nodded, "A couple!" said a voice behind Harry, he didn't want to turn around, he knew who it was. He turned around to face James and Sirius.
James looked extremely amused, but Sirius looked surprised, and slightly irritated. "It took me almost three years to get the girl of my dreams" James said sounding incredibly amused. "Harry can I talk to you for a minute" Sirius asked. Harry nodded and stood up and followed Sirius out of the Great Hall.
"Harry, I love you like a son" Sirius said the second they left the hall. "But if you hurt my little girl" he said shaking his head "but I know about the prophecy, I don't know if you put two and two together or not. But you two have been destined to be together since you were born. Just don't hurt her, alright Harry?" Sirius said, Harry nodded.
They went back into the great hall to have breakfast. Ron and Hermione entered the hall later, they told them all about what happened and that they were now a couple. They were both really happy for them.
